[vtk-developers] No video hardware warning dialog ??

[Bill Hoffman]

I think that may be the safest way to go.   We had a brand new windows 2000 box that
failed to link VTK until the option was turned off.  Also, the borland build fails.

-Bill


At 02:59 PM 12/5/2001 -0500, David Gobbi wrote:
>Hi Bill,
>
>If the VFW32.LIB is not present on all win32 systems, then it is best to
>to go with option 1 (i.e. set VTK_USE_VIDEO_FOR_WINDOWS to OFF).
>Otherwise people might end up distributing binaries that only work on
>systems that have VFW32.
>
>I can make the change ASAP.
>
> - David
>
>
>On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Bill Hoffman wrote:
>
>> I think we should go with option 1, or fix the cmake list files.
>> Currently, the default is to turn this on for all win32 systems.
>> It should first try and find the vfw32 library.  If it can not find
>> the library it should turn the option off.
>>
>> We have had several build errors because this library was not found.
>>
>> -Bill
>>
>>
>> At 10:45 AM 11/21/2001 -0500, David Gobbi wrote:
>> >Hi Ken,
>> >
>> >That would be the vtkWin32VideoSource.  It is automatically built by
>> >CMake if VFW32.LIB (Video-for-Windows) is found on the system.
>> >
>> >The two possible fixes are
>> >1) set the VTK_USE_VIDEO_FOR_WINDOWS default to OFF in CMakeLists.txt
>> >2) fix vtkWin32VideoSource.cxx to generate a VTK error instead of
>> >   displaying a MessageBox
>> >3) make sure that the method that generates the error isn't called
>> >   during testing
>> >
>> >I think that (2) is the best option, so I'll try to get a patch done
>> >today.
>> >
>> >Also, perhaps the testing should have a timeout built
>> >it so that if a test doesn't complete in e.g. 15 minutes then the
>> >offending process is terminated.  I don't think that it would
>> >be easy to add this feature to Dart, but it would improve the
>> >robustness of the tests.
>> >
>> > - David
>> >
>> >
>> >On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Ken Martin wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hey Folk,
>> >>
>> >> Our dashboards are getting hung up on a dialog saying "No video
>> >> hardware". Does this ring a bell with anyone?
>> >>
>> >> Thanks
>> >> Ken
>> >>
>> >>
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